For many users, according to the Photoshop knowledge level, it is sometimes hard to create what is in mind. And, for everyone, having a well-designed object can call the inspiration & help us to create better.

In both cases, for Photoshop users, quality & free PSD files are a treasure. Whether you use them in a tiny part of the whole or build your composition around them, they will help a lot.

Here is a collection of 35 beautiful & free PSDs for charming designs:

Colorful Nature

80 PSD Raindrops

Slick and Clean Button (With Tutorial)

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Last week, a post on WebResourcesDepot had announced the giveaway of free credits ($225 worth) by FlashMint, a very popular flash templates provider, to WRD readers.

Winners are announced at the bottom of the post, but before that, to remember:

FlashMint is offering a variety of products from high quality Flash Intros,  Flash CMS Templates, premium Wordpress Themes to Joomla Layouts & superior osCommerce / Swish Templates.

Besides these templates offered, FlashMint has a wide collection of Flash components that can be easily used to improve any website.

The winners of the giveaway:

Winners are selected randomly from users who tweeted the message: "Want to win $100 credit for Flash Designs from http://www.flashmint.com/ ? Check the details and join the contest at: http://tr.im/nfy8" in Twitter. And here they are:

• @korich – $100 credit
• @elvista- $75 credit
• @ocraig1 – $50 credit

Congratulations to the winners & thanks to everyone for contributing.

jQuery Superbox! is a jQuery plugin for creating easily customizable modal windows (lightbox-like).

It is an accessible script, uses the rel attribute of an element for triggering & href attribute is used for defining the source to be displayed.

To change the look & feel, it is enough to play with the CSS as no styles are set by default.

It can display any type of content as every HTML content can be presented. But by default, images (single or gallery mode), text content & iframes are supported

Dimensions of the modal window can be choosen to resize automatically according to the content or width & height can be defined for a standard size.

Firebug is probably one of the most helpful tools used when developing websites.

Specially, after JavaScript & Ajax became that much popular, it is hard to findout how we were developing & debugging without Firebug.

This great Firefox add-on, besides the ease of use & continious development by a talented team, has many features that make it a must-have like:

• working inside browser, no need to switch apps.
• being real-time, logging every request
• ability to edit code & see results instantly
• debugging JavaScript, measuring its performance & more..

It also has another feature, which is extendibility with help of Firefox add-ons.

There are various add-ons that can add more power to Firebug for creating better & faster. Here they are:

YSlow

YSlow is a Firebug add-on for analyzing web pages and getting suggestions on ways to improve the performance (parallel with the rules for high performance web pages).

YSlow grades web pages based on the predefined rulesets or a user-defined one . It also provides tools for performance analysis, including Smush.it™ and JSLint.

Page Speed

Very similar to YSlow, it is an add-on by the Google team for evaluating the performance of web pages and, best of all, getting suggestions (based on "Web Performance Best Practices") on ways to improve them.

Page Speed automatically optimizes images & provides compressed ones foruploading later.

It can also detect  JavaScript and CSS loaded that actually isn’t used for decreasing the total size of these files.

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dhtmlxScheduler is a free & Ajaxed event calendar script providing a scheduling solution similar to Microsoft Outlook Calendar or Google Calendar.

It is possible to create new events with a double-click & created events can be drag’n dropped, resized (for updating the times), updated or deleted with ease, fully Ajaxed.

The scheduler can present the calendar as day, week or month views & data can be loaded in XML or iCal formats.

With the help of the detailed documentation, it is possible to use any server-side scripting language to make dhtmlxScheduler fit any application.

UI Pattern Factory is both an user interface design pattern library and UI gallery where it is possible to find the best practices, get inspired, and share your solutions with others.

The website is mostly focused on web-based business applications & shares patterns like:

• Refining Search
• Progress Indicator
• Stacked Tabs & more..

UI Pattern Library is also a place where you can ask & vote for new pattern ideas in their forum or add new images to the currently published ones via Flickr.

Led Web Icons is a set of 500 icons (currently) which is very suitable to be used in web applications.

It is inspired by 3 icon sets:

• Drunkey Love Icons
• Silk Icons
• Fugue Icons

and includes totally original icons without any repeating ones.

Sizes of the icons are 16*16px & they are in PNG format. A preview of the full set can be found here.

InfoVis is an open source JavaScript data visualization toolkit offering multiple ways to present data using the canvas tag.

It is feeded with data in JSON format & some of the ready to use visualizations are:

• treemaps
• radial layouts
• bar charths, pie charts & more…

Besides a static presentations, InfoVis supports interactive animations which can be fired by any event (like mouseovers, clicks).

It has various methods to add/remove/update nodes & manipulate every aspect of the outputs.

The toolkit doesn’t depend on a JavaScript framework, can be used with any of them & easily updated for adding new features to it.

Flabell is presenting another handy resource for creating Flash-XML based survey with multiple questions.

An unlimited number of questions & a variable number of answers can be added by simply editing the XML file.

When users select an answer, they can pass to the next question & all answers are stored inside the XML file for visualizing them later (not included within the code).

P.S. Download requires a free membership.

jQuery TOOLS is a set of frequently used user interface components, built with/for jQuery, to power your websites.

The library is lightweight (5.8kb) and consists of the following tools:

• tabs
• tooltip
• scrollable
• overlay
• expose
• flashembed

All the tools can be used together, extended, configured and styled which makes it very flexible.

Every feature in the library is very well documented & offers various examples to lower the learning curve.

It is also possible to download the tools you need rather than the whole package, combined in a one file.